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News Articles: Redlining

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DOJ announces a $31 million redlining settlement with LA-based City National Bank

The Justice Department accused the bank of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities.

January 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Interstate 405 cuts through neighborhoods near the Los Angeles International Airport, seen here in 2017. A new study found links between modern urban air pollution and historical redlining at the national level.

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Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

March 10, 2022
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Photo courtesy of Flickr.com user "Mary"

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Extreme Heat Hits Some Georgia Neighborhoods Harder Than Others

Since the 1960s, Atlanta has added an additional 22 days of the year where the temperature reached as high as 90 degrees. Two researchers from Spelman College are leading a citywide study into which Atlanta neighborhoods get the hottest, which stay cooler and who lives where.

September 07, 2021
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Tiffany Griffith
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Macon Non-Profit Shifting Lending To Women And Entrepreneurs Of Color

A Macon nonprofit focused on downtown revitalization is creating a multi-million dollar, low interest loan fund to help Black-owned businesses get off the ground.

June 24, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship

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In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See

Researchers analyzed the lingering harms of of decades-old racist lending policies known as redlining. Their project lets you explore the current impacts on maps of 142 cities.

November 19, 2020
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  • Maria Godoy

What Can The Fair Housing Act Tell Us 50 Years Later?

The Fair Housing Act is 50 years old this year. Former President Lyndon Johnson implemented this landmark piece of civil rights legislation days after...

September 24, 2018
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  • Elena Rivera and
  • Virginia Prescott
A crew works to demolish a home in Macon's Linwood Estates neighborhood in 2015. The original, Federal redlining maps from the 1930s said of Linwood "subdivision failed before depression began."

Where People Of Color In Georgia Are Shut Out Of Home Loans

Racial disparities in home lending, a practice sometimes called redlining, is alive and well in the United States. That's the big picture takeaway from...

February 16, 2018
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  • Grant Blankenship

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